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Fragments of the top stone of rotary querns Catalogue numbers LISDD:2006.18 &19 Rotary querns were still in use on Lismore in the 17th century to produce oatmeal at home. In the Second Statistical Account, the parish minister recorded a very late use of a domestic quern in Kingairloch in the 1830s. He had “never tasted […]

Book of sermons by Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne, translated into Gaelic, owned by the MacPherson family, Clachan smiddy, Lismore. Robert McCheyne, born in Edinburgh in 1813, had an influence on protestant Christians, through his writings, which lasted long after his early death of typhus in Dundee in 1843. Inspired by Thomas Chalmers, he belonged to […]